Claude Lévi-Strauss Tristes Tropiques (Paperback) (UK IMPORT)

Description: Further DetailsTitle: Tristes TropiquesCondition: NewEAN: 9780141197548ISBN: 9780141197548Publisher: Penguin ClassicsFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 09/01/2011Language: EnglishItem Height: 198mmItem Length: 129mmItem Width: 25mmItem Weight: 326gISBN-10: 0141197544Description: 'One of the great books of our century . . . It speaks with a human voice' Susan SontagTristes Tropiques begins with the line 'I hate travelling and explorers', yet during his life Claude Lévi-Strauss travelled from wartime France to the Amazon basin and the dense upland jungles of Brazil, where he found 'human society reduced to its most basic expression'. His account of the people he encountered changed the field of anthropology, transforming Western notions of 'primitive' man. Tristes Tropiques is a major work of art as well as of scholarship. It is a memoir of exquisite beauty and a masterpiece of travel writing: funny, discursive, movingly detailing personal and cultural loss, and brilliantly connecting disparate fields of thought. Few books have had as powerful and broad an impact.Country/Region of Manufacture: GBAuthor: Claude Lévi-StraussGenre: Travel & TransportBook Series: Penguin Modern ClassicsRelease Year: 2011 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.

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